Ice-cream-cone carrier



F. E. MclNTOSH.

ICE CREAM CONE CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED 050.18. 1919.

Patented May 4,1920.

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TED s'rATEs PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK E. MCINTOSH, OF BURLINGTON, VERMONT, ASSIGNOR TO CONE CARRIER CORPORATION, OF BURLINGTON, VERMONT, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

ICE-CREAM-CONE CARRIER.

Application filed December 18, 1919.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, FRANK E. McIN'rosH, a citizen of the United States, residing at lhirlington, in the county of Chittenden and State of Vermont, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ice- Oream-ione Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

T his invention relates-to improvements in ice-cream cone carriers, and has for its object to provide a novel, simple, light and inexpensive device of the class, designed particularly to supply the demand for a single service carrier for ice-cream cones and the like. A further object is to provide a light, single thickness card-board or paper carrier in one part, whose lateral edges are folded inwardly and then metal bound for stiffening the body of the carrier. And a further object is to provide a light and cheap carrying device of the class, which may be utilized for an advertising novelty, to be sold to dealers in ice-cream, confections and the like.

The various features and parts of the device will be understood from the detailed description which follows, and by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a top-plan view of the complete device. Fig. :2 is a central longitudinal section, taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1; showing how the cones are applied to the carrier. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section, taken on line 3--3 of Fig, 1; showing the construction and arrangement of the parts of the device.

In the drawing, 2 represents the body of the carrier, consisting of an oblong strip 0 card-board, or heavy relatively stiff paper. which is provided with two alining groups of perforations 2, in which the ice-cream cones 3 may be inserted, as shown in Fig. 2, the said groups preferably being so arranged as to provide a relatively broad clear space at the middle of the body for printing or stamping thereon of the dealers name and business. I prefer to employ for the body 2, a material that is very light and inexpensive, and then to suitably stiffen and strengthen the body, so that it will sustain the weight of several loaded ice-cream cones, by first bending the lateral edges 2 and 2" of the body upwardly and then inwardly toward each other, at a slight angle, as best seen in Fig. 3,.and then applying to the said edges' a stiffening agent, consisting Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 4, 1920.

Serial No. 345,888.

of similar strips of thin pliable metal 4: and

In order to apply the metal parts, one lateral edge of each strip is folded upon itself, as at r, to receive and grip the free edges 2 and 2" of the body, after which the opposite edges 4 of the metal are bent or folded around the bends 2 of the body and finally brought into close contact with the bottom side of the body adjacent said bends. By this peculiar corrugating and shaping of the metal parts J:4, the lateral edges of the relatively light and liinber body 2 are adequately stiffened to withstand the weight of the loaded cones 3, and the carriers may be produced at so small an expense, as to greatly enhance the value of the invention for utility as well as for an advertising novelty.

In practice the dealer furnishes one of the carriers with each order for two or more cones; the customer retaining or destroying the carriers at the end of the service. In addition to the great convenience and the sanitary feature of the carrier itself, the dealer derives a benefit from the advertisement of his business, which is printed or otherwise applied to the face of each carrler.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

. 1. In a cone carrier, a body comprising an oblong strip of cardboard having a plurality of perforations along its longitudinal center and having its opposite lateral edges bent upwardly and inwardly toward each other for providing angular flanges, and a strip of metal having one lateral edge bent upon itself and tightly gripping the flanges at each side of said body, the opposite edges of the metal strips folded around the bends of the body and clenched against the bottom of the body.

2. The combination of an oblong normally flat and flexible body, said body having groups of alining perforations adjacent its opposite ends and having its lateral edges bent inwardly parallel to said perfo rations at an angle to the face of the body, and stiffening elements comprising similar strips of thin metal which grip the said flanges and are clenched against the lateral bottom portions of the body for pre venting the flexing of the body.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

FRANK E. MGINTOSH. 

